The Genealogy Guys will record their podcast before a live audience at the Federation of Genealogical Societies
conference. The audience will get to submit questions for
possible inclusion in the podcast. The conference is Sept. 2 to 5 in
Little Rock, Ark.; the podcast recording is 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept.
3. Look for location information at the conference.

Ancestry.com’s subscription-based Canadian site, Ancestry.ca, has added French Deaths by Guillotine 1792-1796, with 13,000 names of French citizens executed during the Reign of Terror. The names come from a book written in 1796 by a French journalist.

ProQuest, the creator of the HeritageQuest genealogy service, ProQuest Historical Newspapers and other databases for libraries, is working on a new search platform that’ll make I easier to find information related to your genealogy search. Expected launch is 2010.

The company is also adding Boston’s Jewish Advocate (1905 to 1990), Philadelphia’s Jewish Exponent (1887 to 1990) and the Detroit Free Press to Proquest Historical Newspapers.